Dance
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Arts
The Dance of Too-Hot Summer? Melt Into the Pinegrove Shuffle.
Garrett Lee, with an assist from DJ Khaled, fills a cultural hole with his floppy, hypnotic TikTok dance — still going strong in a sad, cathartic way.
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Arts
Blending Dance and Sculpture Creates a Fresh View of Art
An exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is one of several recent projects using the two forms to explore how people interact with art.
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World
Magda Saleh, Influential Egyptian Ballerina, Is Dead at 79
Trained at the Bolshoi, she became a star of the Cairo Ballet and played a key role in making ballet accessible to people of all classes.
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Arts
A Multi-Season Celebration of the Martha Graham Company at 100
Starting in fall, the company will present a three-year celebration featuring Graham classics and a new work by Jamar Roberts.
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Arts
‘I Raised Them!’ Nina Ananiashvili’s Georgian Dancers Come to Town
Nina Ananiashvili, a former star of American Ballet Theater, is no tourist to New York City, but she’ll have fun playing one when the State Ballet of Georgia comes to town. As part of a short American tour, the company, led by Ananiashvili, will ...
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World
Pierre Lacotte, Choreographer Who Aided a Defection, Dies at 91
He befriended Rudolf Nureyev in 1961 while the Kirov Ballet was in Paris and witnessed his headline-making defection at the height of the Cold War.
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World
Despite War, Ukrainian Dance Group Returns for the ‘America’s Got Talent’ Finale
The Light Balance Kids, a Ukrainian youth dance group, wowed viewers with a high-octane performance last month on the first episode of “America’s Got Talent: All-Stars.” The dancers bobbed and wove through an upbeat arcade game-inspired routine ...
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World
Despite War, Ukrainian Dance Group Returns for the ‘America’s Got Talent’ Finale
The Light Balance Kids, a Ukrainian youth dance group, wowed viewers with a high-octane performance last month on the first episode of ‘America’s Got Talent: All-Stars.’ The dancers bobbed and wove through an upbeat arcade game-inspired routine ...
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World
Carlos Saura, a Leading and Enduring Spanish Director, Dies at 91
Called “one of the fundamental filmmakers in the history of Spanish cinema,” he began making movies under Franco, often hiding his messages in allegory.
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Arts
Choreographer Smears Dog Feces on Critic After Negative Review
Marco Goecke has been suspended from his position as ballet director at Hanover’s main opera house after he smeared excrement on a critic’s face.